Emerson instructed us to “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.”

Following Emerson’s guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. You can search by topic or by teacher or you can just hit refresh and keep getting 5 new random quotes below:-

• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Death, Life, Knowledge, Fear

• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Genius, Emerson, Heart, Thought, Believe

• "The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain."

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Philosopher, Warrior

• Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

  ~ Socrates quotes from The Apology

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Excellence | Areté

• Some day, in the years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now… Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by steady, long continued process.

  ~ Phillips Brooks quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Decide, Character, Struggle, Act, Great, Rest, Life, Fail

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